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"Game soundtracks, what do you think?"

One thing that is often not good enough to satisfy gamers in a game is the soundtrack. What is your favourite type of soundtrack? What types of music should be used for what types of games? Should futuristic racers like F Zero X have techno soundtracks or heavy rock? Should adventure games like Zelda have classical soundtracks? What type of music do you like in your games?

What brought this on was the realisation one day, that I did not listen to the game soundtrack on most games after having heard the full range of sounds. I noticed that for nearly all my games I listened to CD whilst playing the games. What I listened to the most was Bon Jovi and Oasis. Is it the good tunes and the guitars? Is it something else?

I think that game developers should pay more attention to the sounds in games. Often the graphics are wonderful and a lot of time and effort are spent on them. But rarely is the soundtrack good enough to keep me listening for long. What do you think? What is it that spurs you on to listen to a particular soundtrack for a game or a CD (or tape or vinyl or MP3 etc)?

Frankly I do not think that enough is done when it comes to the music and sound effects on games nowadays. Lastly what games do you think have the best soundtrack? My favourite is actually FIFA97. Worms was also quite good. What is your opinion. My only hope is that the developers actually read forums like this and find out what the gamers themselves want.
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Biggles

The Xbox will allow you to load your music from your music CDs and save the tracks on its hard drive to play back in the games. This is definately the way forward.

More info on this can be found in the "Thinking positively about the Xbox thread" for anyone interested.

hmmmm... I think music in games HAS to follow music in films.

When you are walking down the cold, dark resident evil coridor you expect to hear sharp violin chords as things come infront of you. Reason: this is what happens in films.

Games like Zelda are much more open, but for action scenes there are required music types. Shigsy seems to be doing a good job.

Sonic

I noticed that to. I like it personally. Also some of the PC games can have their soundtracks played on a CD player.

The more extreme sports games tend to have Rock music, as they are often associated with each other. Games like Tony Hawks Pro Skater and games to do with Snowboarding, seem to have soundtracks relating to Rock music.

good thing about PSone games if you like the soundtrack on most of em like wipeout you can pop it in your CD player and hey presto.

The sound on Grim Fandango was very good but then so was everything else about that masterpeice. It was a mix of Mexican and whatever the current scene needed, and it was always perfect.

Did you lot know that there was a song by a band called Shynefactory and the video in it was done to look like a 4 player Goldeneye on Archives.

The Metal Gear Solid theme rocks. So does Cars by Fear Factiory but that's a different story.

I think most soundtracks I've heard suit the games fine!

I like the fact that in the Command & Conquer series you can choose the soundtracks to play.....

However if people are noticing the soundtracks to much, does that mean the game isn't good enough?

If the game was brilliant, you wouldn't worry about the soundtrack!

Amazing, isn't it?